In the 1980s comedy Real Genius, laboratory safety is the stuff of sight gags and pratfalls. Playing the movie's protagonist, Val Kilmer protects himself from a six-megawatt laser using Ray-Ban ...

In order to accomplish this, RIT has developed a Laboratory and Chemical Hygiene Safety Program that includes guidelines to ensure safe work practices and training to keep faculty, staff and students ...

Whether as a sponsor or donor, a member or volunteer, or an employee or fellow, you can make a difference. Recent serious and sometimes fatal accidents in chemical research laboratories at United ...

You work with hydrofluoric acid, with nanomaterials, with ethidium bromide, with a chemical with acute or chronic toxicity, with a caustic chemical, a flammable solvent or with a chemical that is new ...

The OSHA Laboratory Standard (i.e. Chemical Hygiene Plan) requires SOPs relevant to safety and health considerations to be prepared and followed when laboratory work involves the use of hazardous ...

Under this standard, a laboratory is required to produce a Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP ... The plan will transmit information on the hazards of chemicals to their employees by means of labels on ...